Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-16
BASE BALL BUDGET.
Gossip Gathered Here and There
From League Centres.

Gossip Gathered Here and There
From League Centres.
The Gulf League is trying to get its
head above water again.
Ed Hengle will wrestle with the wild
Westerners next season as an umpire.
Four thousand dollars is to be expended
10 improving Sportsmen's Park at New
| Orleans.
Nashville gives out that Savannah's
south-paw, Summers, will be blizzarded
before the season is over. Wen see.
The first uniform of the New Orleans
team will be light gray suits, with dark
blue stockings and trimmings. A little
later another Uniform will be decided
upon.
Pitchers next season will have to guard
against three costly errorS-giving the
batter his base on balls, striking the bat
ter and making balk. 1T requires very
little under the new rules TO constitute a
baiR.
The Charleston Association will re-
ceive 500 for the scOre-card privilege
and $3.50 for the use of the fence inclosing
the grounds. The ice cream privilege was
awarded for a consideration OF 500. The
cushion and cigar privileges are yet to be
sold.
The Nashville Union very pertinently
remarks that the information printed by
some OF the Northern papers in regard to
Southern League AFFAIRS is about as near
as correct as English cablegrams from
the battletields of a petty war in South
Africa. And good deal of this alleged
information goes out of Atlanta, too.
Manager Kelly, Of Mobile, is now in
Cincinnati, and 50 far has signed Long, OF
Atlanta and Wilmington, a good hitter
N FaIp 11 N Aha, IF loat So. Mno
and Mobiles; Dutfee, of Kelley's Acid
Iron Earth team and the slugger of the
Mobiles; Neihof, of the Shamrocks of
Cincinnati; Klushman, OF last years
Leadvilles, and Eaton, of Evansville, Ind.
A prominent Philadelphia base ballist,
who denouncos the present system OF bar
ter and sale as worse than slavery in its
worst form, quotes the price of the lead
ing players as follows, but doubts if they
could be bought even at that: Dan
Brouthers, $4,000; Jerry Denny, So, 900:
Fred Dunlap, $4,000; John Glasscock,
$1,000; H. Richardson, So, 900; Nike Kelly,
$4,000; Mccormick, $4,000; Buck Ewing,
So 600.
The schedule committee will meet in
New Orleans next week, and until that
meeting the exact makeup of the league
cannot be stated accurately. Mont
gomery wants to come in, and has offered
TO comply with all the requirements.
Birmingham has made all necessary pre-
liminary arrangements to enter the
arena, and ii is highly probable these two
cities will be admitted. Speculation as
to their intentions, however, is useless,
as the next few days will determine the
question.
Detroit dispatch saws of the Detroit
clubs Southern tour: manager " atkins
has had to change the route of his prelim-
mary tour several times. owing to cir
cumstances occurring which made it nee
essary. However, ae has now arranged
schedule which he says will positively
be carried out. Games have been ar
ranged for on the Macon (Ga. grounds
for March u, II and 10, with the Findlays,
a ml-proiessiOnal club Of that city. The
day following the last game the Detroits
Will pull up stakes and change their base
to Mobile. There they will play on March
p, % and %. On March "A, % and 26 they
will play In New Orleans; on March %
and 20 In Savannah; 30th and 31st, and
April and 2, in Charleston; April 4, in
Birmingham; 9th at Decatur; 9th, 7th,
Sth and 9th at Memphis; I1th, 18th and
18th at Nashville; 14th and 10th at Louis
vile.
The Nashville Union pays this CON-
pliment to last years Savannah team:
The great team which represented Sa-
vannah last season has been scattered
pretty etfectually. Joe Miller and E.
Moriarity have signed with Lacrosse,
Sutclife has signed with DesMoines, and
John Monarity IS with Minneapolis;
Tommy Gillen is with Detroit, Tug Arun-
del with st. Louis, ODay with Washing
ton, Jimmy Fields with the NeWarks,
Shreve with Baltimore, Pete Hotaling
With Cleveland, Joe Neal with Louisville,
and George Strict with Syracuse. These
men formed one of the most formidable.
base ball aggregations ever brought to-
gether in Southern city, and should
have won the pennant. There was none
OF that combined bulldozing about them
which made Atlanta disliKed every W here
Moreover, they were controlled by men
who did not stoop to mean, contemplate
tricks TO make them win a game. 1t was
certainly great combination of base ball
talent"